Research Program Manager

🚀 Launched by an ex-Microsoft researcher and powered by top VCs, Koidra is revolutionizing the world of industrial automation with its cutting-edge AIoT technology.

💡 Our mission is to transform high-impact industries by enabling companies to meet their sustainability and production goals through AIoT-powered intelligent automation.

We are hiring a research program manager. In this role, you will help us manage our research collaboration with academic stakeholders, develop new grant proposals, and maintain our global thought leadership in the industry.

👉 Manage our research collaboration with external researchers. You will be Koidra’s interface with research collaborators.

👉 Manage the relationships with top researchers and develop collaboration opportunities

👉 Develop and write grant proposals

👉 Seek new grant opportunities

👉 Evolve our #datadriven grower book and write other technical articles

👉 Write blog posts and other posts on social media channels to broadcast our thought leadership in the industry

✅ PhD degree in greenhouse horticulture or a related area

✅ 3+ years of professional experience in greenhouse growing

✅ Track record with research and grant funding

✅ Excellent communications and presentation skills

✅ Excellent project management skills

✅ You see yourself fitting

Koidra’s Culture

1️⃣ Koidra has won the autonomous greenhouse challenges, back to back. Each time, we outperformed the reference expert growers, who outperformed every other team.

2️⃣ Koidra is the only startup in its category that has received U.S. federal as well as Canadian provincial research grants, collaborating with the top scientists for Controlled Environment Agriculture in North America.